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Myung-Hee: Her American Life
About the Book
Part memoir, part love letter, Myung-Hee: Her American Life tells the tale of a Korean woman who immigrated to the United States to build a life with her American politician husband. Everything was set against the relationship: family skepticism, an ocean of distance, even an overzealous housekeeping staff at a Boston hotel. It’s nearly impossible to imagine forming a lifelong bond under such circumstances.
Their partnership prevailed through a two-year courtship of correspondence before they ever met face-to-face. Through love, patience and the intervention of dreams and otherworldly experiences, Myung-Hee and Pat were able to give of themselves and their cultures to weave a Korean-American tapestry of devotion to one another.
Told with warmth, humor and openness, the author of Tahoe Boy: A Journey Back Home and Here and Hereafter: Nevada Voices on Life and the Great Beyond delivers his most heartfelt, personal work yet, a story about the love of his life and a romance that spans decades and continents. Their international love story is told with the tender skill of a seasoned writer, challenging readers to consider how love, especially love that bridges cultural differences, transforms and deepens us.
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Praise for
Myung-Hee: Her American Life
As a first-generation Korean American woman with American-born children, my appreciation of this story is deeply personal. The book also reminds me that I owe my ease and comfort of being a Korean American to Myung-Hee and others like her.
Beautifully written, it is a story of a young Korean woman forging ahead, told from a deep personal perspective, while reminding us all of
the ties that resonate: love, family, and what it truly means to call someplace home.
Pat Hickey’s Myung-Hee: Her American Life is a love story between a wise Korean woman and her idealistic American husband. Through many collisions, their different backgrounds end up being more a complement than a barrier. Their relationship offers a glimpse at the kind of future marriages we are likely to see a lot more of.
Told through the eyes of a devoted husband, this portrait of a young Korean woman and her 50-year marriage in a foreign land is a story of sacrifice and reward.
Transplanted into the ‘new soil’ of America, she grows stronger every year as she learns to ‘live, love, and create’ her own garden of life.
This story celebrates the strength of immigration today in fulfillment of the American dream. This is an important book at a time when people yearn for a story of love, care and understanding.
This is a true love story — two hearts from very different backgrounds joined together as one.
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About the Author
Pat Hickey was born in Carson City and grew up in Lake Tahoe, the place where his Irish ancestors settled in the 1870s. Pat has been a ski bum, a seeker, a reporter, an assemblyman, an education advocate, and a proud parent and grandparent. His “Memo from the Middle” Sunday column is carried in the Reno Gazette Journal.
Pat received his Master’s Degree from the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada. His lifelong interest in life after death is matched only by his fascination with the lives he and other Nevadans are currently leading.
